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Daressy #: 100

Owner: Amunhotep (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Dra Abul Naga)

Reasons: --

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr jmj-st-a n jmn Hrj-sA 4 nw jmn-Htp mAa-xrw

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, acolyte of Amun, chief of the fourth phyle, Amunhotep justified.

Date: A. II (see 'Remarks' section below).

Length: 6.6 x 3.6 x 3.7 digits (MFA Boston: # RES.72.329), 8.9 x 5.4 x 2.9 digits (HAN: 1935,200,365).

Colours: Red paint on the face and the stem under white (01-128 in Davies's notebook).

Findspots:

• 16 from Dra Abul Naga (Gauthier 1908 [BIFAO 6]: 126–127).

• One from 'Areal A' in Dra Abul Naga (Kruck 2012: 125).

• Unknown examples from TT 184 (Fábián 2013a: 31; Fábián 2013c: 12).

• One from TT 184 area (Fábián 2016: 38, 44).

Remarks: 

• Two bricks are housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA Boston: # RES.72.330, # RES.72.329). A museum in Liverpool also has a brick with two seal impressions (Borchardt, etc. 1934 [ZAS 70]: 33 n. 2).

• The ascribed owner may have been identical to the owner of # 198.

• [MET Amunhotep] The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a stela of a certain Amunhotep (Inv. # 17.2.6. Hayes 1990: 172-173, Fig. 94), On this stela, Amunhotep is identified as the son of Bak and the paternal grandson of Kamis. This Amunhotep held several Hm-kA titles including Hm-kA n nTr nfr mn-xpr-ra, as well as the titles jrj-at n jmn, Hrj-mrt n jmn, jmj-rA xnt n jmn, jmj-rA Snwtj n jmn, and jmj-st-a n jmn Hrj-sA 2 nw. The MET dates this stela to the reign of Amunhotep II.
  [Uriage Amunhotep] There is also a statue of a certain Amunhotep in Uriage. Its titles include jmj-st-a n jmn, Hrj-sA tpj jmn, among others. This Amunhotep had a father named [...]abu ([...]Abw) and a mother, Tuiu (twjw) (Dunham 1940 [JEA 26]).
  [München Amunhotep] In addition, there is a statue of a certain Amunhotep  preserved in München (Schlögl 1978: 57-58). This Amunhotep was jmj-rA xntjw-S n jmn. Schlögl proposed, on stylistic grounds, that the statue should be dated to before the reign of Amunhotep III. Since Amunhotep served as a mortuary priest of King Thutmose III, Schlögl suggested that this provides a terminus post quem for the statue. Accordingly, he concluded that it was most likely produced during the reign of Amunhotep II, or at the latest under Thutmose IV (Schlögl 1978: 57-58).
  Schlögl and Eichler pointed out the possibility that München Amunhotep was identical with the MET Amunhotep, and Eichler further suggested that that Amunhotep might also be the same individual as the owner of cone # 198 (Schlögl 1978: 57; Eichler 2000: 259). However, this creates a contradiction: whereas # 198 states that Amunhotep’s father was K[...]msy, the MET stela identifies Amunhotep’s father as Bak.

• Are the Kamis on MET stela, the K[...]msy on # 198, and K(a)mis on # 207 the same person? The latter was probably a different individual from TT 398 Kamose called Nentawaeref, whose cones were # 118 and # 119.

• For a possible reconstruction of Amunhotep’s family tree, see Habachi 1968: 56.

• See also 04-013 in Macadam's Green file, 05-024 in his DALEX file 1, and 06-029, 097, & 098 in his DALEX file 2.

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